After assuming office, Donald Trump bragged that he would come up with a plan that would solve the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians. He put his son-in-law Jared Kushner in charge of developing that plan, in spite of the fact that Kushner had no foreign policy experience or expertise.
Most people looked at the Trump administration's love for Israel and hatred for muslims (except for rich Saudis), and doubted they could find a solution in the Middle East. The doubters were right. For the last two years, Kushner met repeatedly with Israelis and did not have any meetings at all with Palestinian leaders.
It should be no surprise then that when the Trump "peace plan" was announced on Tuesday, it gave Israel everything it wanted -- including allowing Israel to annex all the land they had stolen from the Palestinians to build illegal settlements. The Palestinians would be given only limited sovereignty and a tiny piece of East Jerusalem as its capital.
The plan is abysmally unfair, and its no surprise that it was immediately rejected by Palestinian leaders. And it has a zero chance of actually solving the Palestinian crisis (or even making a tiny bit of progress toward that).
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